Project description

Shapely is a Python package for manipulation and analysis of 2D geospatial
geometries. It is based on GEOS (http://geos.refractions.net). Shapely 1.0 is
not concerned with data formats or coordinate reference systems.
Responsibility for reading and writing data and projecting coordinates is left
to other packages like WorldMill and pyproj. For more information, see:

Dependencies

Installation

Windows users should use the executable installer, which contains the required
GEOS DLL. Other users should acquire libgeos_c by any means, make sure that it
is on the system library path, and install from the Python package index:

$ sudo easy_install Shapely

with the setup script:

$ sudo python setup.py install

or by using the development buildout on Linux, which also provides libgeos_c:

Usage

See the manual for comprehensive examples of usage. See also Operations.txt
and Predicates.txt under tests/ for more examples of the spatial operations and
predicates provided by Shapely. See also Point.txt, LineString.txt, etc for
examples of the geometry APIs.